The city was returning to ‘normal’. The front of the Belfast Newsletter for the 24 April shows how the city was ‘getting back to work’ after the shock of the 15/16 April raid. There were a large number of vacancies…
ByadminBelfast was still coping with the aftermath of the raid. Emergency food was provided to the population. On 16 April, 70,000 meals were produced and by 21 April this had fallen to 10,000.[1] Also, much of Belfast had been untouched…
ByadminThe Duke and Duchess of Gloucester toured severely damaged areas of Belfast. The Northern Whig believed some people had fled ‘more likely to selfishness than fear’ but thought that people should ‘press on, stimulated by our Royal visitors, to get…
ByadminOn 21st April, unidentified bodies of those people killed during the 15/6 April raid were buried in mass graves in Belfast City Cemetery and Milltown Cemetery. Protestants were buried in the former and Catholics in the latter. The memorial in…
ByadminEmma Duffin was Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) commandant of the Stranmillis Military Hospital. The VAD was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire.[1] Duffin had been…
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